The Hero Within: I-Driven Visuality
June 2, 2016
Hosted by Gwendolyn D. Galsworth, Ph.D.
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Episode Description
What would it be like if every CEO, manager and supervisor commits to the single cultural outcome of making every employee a hero in their own eyes. What would change as a result? What would have to change? And how would they do it? Join us this week as your host and visual expert, Gwendolyn Galsworth, shares her view on why becoming a hero at work is important—and how workplace visuality can help that happen. At the core of each of us is a deep and abiding need to contribute—a longing to share, or even create, something of value. Not just in our everyday lives but also at work, especially at work. There is a hero within. We want to master and excel. In Gwendolyn’s experience, this can be and has been accomplished by implementing workplace visuality—because it is a language, so practical, and I-driven. What would it be like to make that outcome a part of every boss’s job description—to ensure people become heroes in their own eyes at work. Tune in/Learn more. Let the workplace speak.
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Visual Workplace Radio: Let the Workplace Speak offers the best in practical tools, methods, and strategies for improvement leaders who want to apply workplace visuality and harness its remarkable cultural and bottom line contribution. Visuality: you can’t get to excellence without it.
Each week, award-winning author and foremost visual workplace expert, Dr. Gwendolyn Galsworth, targets new learning and applications through a range of formats, case studies, interviews with business leaders and topic experts.
Whether yours is a factory, hospital, military depot, bank, office or dry cleaners, get informed, get inspired, get visual.
Gwendolyn D. Galsworth, Ph.D.
Gwendolyn D. Galsworth, PhD, is president and founder of Visual Thinking Inc. and The Visual-Lean Institute(r), a training, consulting, and research firm in visual workplace technologies. Over a period of 30 years, Dr. Galsworth has codified the field of visuality into a single coherent framework of thinking and application called the 10-Doorway Model.
In 2005, Dr. Galsworth established the Visual-Lean(r) Institute where in-house and external trainers are licensed in nine core visual workplace courses.
Four of her nine courses are now available as on-line training systems (English/Spanish), with more to come. Galsworth is author of seven books, including two Shingo Prize winners: Visual Workplace/Visual Thinking and Work That Makes Sense, available from her website and Amazon.
Dr. Galsworth began in the 1980s as the head of training/development at Productivity Inc. She worked closely with Dr. Ryuji Fukuda to adapt the CEDAC(r) method for western companies, and with Dr. Shigeo Shingo to develop, among many things, poka-yoke for the West. She was principal developer of Visual Factory, TEIAN (operator-led suggestion systems), and the X-Type Matrix.
A Fellow on the Shingo Institute Faculty and former Baldrige and Shingo Examiners, Galsworth has led study missions to some of the world’s finest companies, including in Japan. Dr. Galsworth lives in New England where she happily works, hikes, and writes.